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  • noun Plural form of viscount.

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Examples

  • What do they call viscounts in merry old England, anyway?

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • What do they call viscounts in merry old England, anyway?

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • What do they call viscounts in merry old England, anyway?

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • What do they call viscounts in merry old England, anyway?

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • What do they call viscounts in merry old England, anyway?

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • What do they call viscounts in merry old England, anyway?

    Haven Kristi Cook 2011

  • Seems unfair, but sons of earls are mere "Honorables," like the famous Mitford sisters and the children of viscounts and barons, except that first-born sons of earls and viscounts quite often use the title of one of dad's spare baronies.

    Peerless Titles Paul Levy 2011

  • Relatively speaking, the royals have plenty to pluck from when it comes to filling its wedding party morning coats -- dukes, earls, barons and too many viscounts and countesses to count.

    Wendy Sachs: The Royal Wedding: Nannies, Princes and Page Boys Wendy Sachs 2011

  • Relatively speaking, the royals have plenty to pluck from when it comes to filling its wedding party morning coats -- dukes, earls, barons and too many viscounts and countesses to count.

    Wendy Sachs: The Royal Wedding: Nannies, Princes and Page Boys Wendy Sachs 2011

  • More carriages, lords, and chamberlains, viscounts, mistresses of the robes -- lackeys all.

    CORONATION DAY 2010

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